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Dr. DAVID SCHNARCH
Tuesday, August 6, 7:30 p.m.

In this remarkable new book, Dr. DAVID SCHNARCH, world-renowned sex and marital therapist and author of Passionate Marriage, offers an innovative approach to resolving sexual difficulties and the relationship problems they cause. In addition to taking an unflinchingly honest, realistic, and erotic approach to sex, Dr. Schnarch reveals the complicated emotional interactions hidden within couples' most private moments. By showing couples how they can turn their worst sex and relationship disasters into personal growth and spiritual connection, Dr. Schnarch offers couples the best sex of their lives. Generous of spirit, enlightened, and insightful, Resurrecting Sex (HarperCollins, $24.95) is destined to make the world a better place to fall in love. Rather than dwelling on sexual techniques, this sympathetic book shows how to cure the rejection, hostility, and emotional alienation that often accompany sexual problems; the unique method it presents helps couples to develop the love, affection, and commitment that strengthen relationships.

Resurrecting Sex

Passionate Marriage ($ 16.00)

ELLEN MELOY
Wednesday, August 7, 7:30 p.m.

In her intoxicating new book The Anthropology of Turquoise (Pantheon, $24.00), artist-naturalist ELLEN MELOY explores the connections among human perception, geography, and the natural world. From the canyons of the Southwest to the Mojave Desert, from the Yucatan Peninsula to the Bahamas, Meloy takes us on a journey filled with light and color. With acute vision and wit, this book—equal parts memoir, natural history, and adventure—invites us to appreciate the environments, creatures, and objects that we may take for granted.

The Anthropology of Turquoise

M. JOHN FAYHEE
Thursday, August 8, 7:30 p.m.

Since 1974, Mountain Gazette has been delighting, surprising, and offending readers with great essays, flippant features, outrageous opinion, and memorable short fiction on almost any subject even remotely connected with mountains. In When in Doubt, Go Higher (Mountain Sports Press, $18.95), Mountain Gazette editor and publisher M. JOHN FAYHEE collects the best of the best; profoundly literate and unashamedly dirt-bag, this eclectic collection features writings by John Nichols, Charles Bowden, Edward Abbey, and many more.

When in Doubt, Go Higher

SEAN MURPHY
Monday, August 12, 7:30 p.m.

One Bird, One Stone: 108 American Zen Stories (Renaissance, $17.95) is a distinctly American take on the ancient tradition of Zen Buddhism. Drawn from the archives of major American Zen centers and interviews with some of its most seminal figures, SEAN MURPHY presents notable encounters between teachers and students, moments of insight and wisdom, excerpts from little-known writings by Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, and the humor of Zen as it has flowered in America over the last hundred-plus years.

One Bird, One Stone: 108 American Zen Stories

TIM FARRINGTON
Tuesday, August 13, 7:30 p.m.

Rebecca Martin is a single mother with an apartment to rent and with few illusions remaining, but when the new tenant turns out to be Michael Christopher, on the lam after twenty years in a monastery, Rebecca’s daughter and friends are delighted, and she begins to let go of her disillusionment and open herself to hope. Beautifully written and playfully engaging, The Monk Downstairs (HarperSanFrancisco, $22.95) is TIM FARRINGTON’s shining story about faith and love, about spirit and the struggle between contemplation and action.

The Monk Downstairs

A.J. HILL
Wednesday, August 14, 7:30 p.m.

On August 30, 1920, the S-Five departed Boston on her first cruise. Two days later, as part of a routine test of the submarine’s ability to crash dive, failure to close a faulty valve sent seventy-five tons of seawater blasting in and the sub plunging into the sea bottom with her electrical system down, her radio too weak to transmit, and one drive motor inoperable. In Under Pressure (The Free Press, $25.00), Boulder author A.J. HILL tells the harrowing and heroic story of the crew of the S-Five and their forty-hour race against death.

Under Pressure

ROBERT J. MORGAN
Thursday, August 15, 7:30 p.m.

The true story of a woman whose strength sustains her through the calamites of alcoholism, desertion, and death, and of a young man who literally fights his way to a new life, Goodbye, Geraldine (John Gile Communications, $17.95) is Boulder author ROBERT J. MORGAN’s honest, heart-rending, and ultimately celebratory ode to his extraordinary grandmother and the life she enabled him to create for himself. With its upbeat theme and gentle humor, this poignant new book in the Irish-American tradition will have readers laughing through tears.

Goodbye, Geraldine

MARK SPRAGG
Monday, August 19, 7:30 p.m.

With Where Rivers Change Direction, an award-winning memoir of his youth spent on a Wyoming ranch, MARK SPRAGG established himself as one of the great western voices of our time; now, his first novel builds upon that reputation. The Fruit of Stone (Riverhead, $23.95) is the story of the lifelong friendship of two men and their love for a woman who eludes them. When she leaves her marriage for a new life, they follow her in an odyssey across the American West that forces truths and tests the extremes of love and loyalty.

Fruit of Stone

With Where Rivers Change Direction ($ 12.95)

DAVID BALL
Tuesday, August 20, 7:30 p.m.

The story of a Denver woman fighting to return home with her young stepson and newly adopted daughter, Colorado author DAVID BALL’s China Run (Simon & Schuster, $24.00) is a gripping thriller. When Allison and other adoptive parents are told that they must exchange their babies for others due to a “clerical error”, she and several other American couples choose to run for the American consulate in Shanghai. Little known to the new parents, however, there is a sinister reason behind the nightmare, and their flight spawns a massive manhunt.

China Run

MARK COHEN
Wednesday, August 21, 7:30 p.m.

When Boulder math professor Jayne Smyers learns that the three victims of three apparently unrelated cases had all been researching fractals, she knows it was not coincidence; after federal agents fail to link the deaths, she turns to Nederland private eye Pepper Keane—a former JAG with a Diet Coke addiction. Sometimes violent, sometimes hilarious, The Fractal Murders (Muddy Gap, $13.95) is an original mystery from local author MARK COHEN with twists and turns that sneak up from behind and grab you by the throat.

JOHN MAJOR JENKINS
Thursday, August 22, 7:30 p.m.

The Galactic Alignment (Bear & Company, $18.00) is an astronomical event that brings the solstice sun into alignment with the center of the Milky Way galaxy every 12,960 years. Building on the discoveries of his book Maya Cosmogenesis 2012, Boulder author JOHN MAJOR JENKINS demonstrates that the end-date of 2012 does not signal the end of time, but rather the beginning of a new stage of human consciousness. Jenkins’ work presents us with a groundbreaking synthesis of lost wisdom relating to this transformative cosmic milestone.

The Galactic Alignment

Dr. LINDA SEGER
Monday, August 26, 7:30 p.m.

For millennia, linear thinking has been the dominant mode of Western thought, but that is changing. As Dr. LINDA SEGER points out in her provocative new book Web Thinking (Inner Ocean, $18.95), linear thinking is literally unnatural; our relationships, like the myriad curved and bending forms in nature, will flourish when they encircle and entwine, rather than being forced straight ahead. Dr. Seger illustrates the need for more organic, cooperative thinking, and gives practical advice for developing healthier ways of thinking.

Web Thinking

DENNIS MCNALLY
Tuesday, August 27, 7:30 p.m.

DENNIS MCNALLY, the Grateful Dead’s historian and publicist for more than twenty years, takes readers back through the history of the band in A Long Strange Trip (Broadway, $30.00). In a kaleidoscopic narrative, McNally not only chronicles their experiences with spirit and zeal, but veers off into side trips on the band’s intricate stage setup, the magic of the Grateful Dead live experience, and metaphysical musings excerpted from a conversation among band members, highlighting the very human faces of the band’s inner circle.

A Long Strange Trip

JEFF WALTCHER & JOSHUA MULDER
Wednesday, August 28, 7:30 p.m.

Join us as JEFF WALTCHER and JOSHUA MULDER present a slide show and lecture about the Great Stupa, one of the most significant examples of Buddhist sacred architecture in the world. Located at Shambhala Mountain Center, the Great Stupa fuses the art and design of the ancient Tibetan tradition with modern technology. Standing 108 feet tall and built by volunteers over fourteen years, this monument to peace, tolerance, and compassion was built to honor the life and work of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, founder of Naropa University.

HARRIET LERNER, Ph.D.
Thursday, August 29, 7:30 p.m.

The author of nine books—including The Dance of Anger and The Mother Dance—HARRIET LERNER, Ph.D. is one of our nation’s most loved and respected relationship experts. In The Dance of Connection (HarperCollins, $13.95), she teaches us how to navigate our most difficult relationships with courage, clarity, and joyous conviction. Dr. Lerner shows us when to lighten up and let something go—and when we need words to set things right and heal disconnections. Her latest work gives us tools to communicate under fire in today’s world.

The Dance of Connection

The Dance of Anger ($ 14.00)

The Mother Dance ($ 14.00)

IF YOU CANNOT ATTEND AN EVENT, BUT WOULD LIKE AN AUTOGRAPHED COPY, please call us to order one (personalized copies must be prepaid). All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. If you are unable to use the stairs to the second floor ballroom where our events are held, please call ahead to arrange for the closed-circuit television service available on the main floor. Events are subject to change or cancellation. Please call us to confirm on the day of the event: (303) 447-2074. Books not purchased at Boulder Book Store will be signed only if time permits.

CHILDREN’S SUMMER READING PROGRAM

Boulder Book Store has once again teamed up with Ben & Jerry’s in Boulder to bring elementary school aged children (grades 1-5) our SUMMER READING PROGRAM!

Here’s how it works:

• Read an age-appropriate chapter book (no picture books, please).
• Write a short (50-100 word) book report and turn it in to get a certificate for a free Ben & Jerry’s ice cream cone!

We will post the best reports in the store, and use them as recommendations for other children of the same age. Books need not be purchased at Boulder Book Store. The program will run from June 1 through August 30, 2002.